Dental/dental hygiene trainees discus bias and dental training/education. (2023) I feel like refreshers over time, every once in a while, a refresher course of, like, “Hey, remind yourself to try and get out of your mental bias.” I feel like that’s something throughout your whole career that you just have to keep reminding yourself. I
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental training/education. (2023) And even still, I have tons to learn. We’re lifelong learners in dentistry. If you’re not planning on being a lifelong learner, then you’re probably not in the right place because it’s technology and everything. But I think our curriculum is different than many dental schools in that
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss treatment costs, access to care, and managing patient expectations. (2023) One thing that stuck with me was the people who work on insurance and payroll here in the school. Oh, there are a lot of people [that] specifically work here in the school just to dig deep into insurances, so meaning…
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss diversity. (2023) I was raised in Southern California, so I was raised in an environment where that was incredibly diverse. This is the least diverse environment I’ve ever been in my life. I even, I went to high school in Des Moines, but I went to a public high school. It
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental training/education, patient fears, and time. (2023) I see it in our faculty as well where I understand things need to get done, but sometimes they’ll be like, “Hey, it’s 9:15. Why haven’t you started?” And you’re like, “Because my patient is worried about being able to pay for treatment. They’re
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss access to care, dental training/education, treatment costs, and time. (2023) I think they do a decent job. A few of us were in the Dental Public Health [DPH] distinction track. I think that was a great opportunity because, I mean, we watched so many videos and have so many discussions about
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss bias, managing patient expectations, trust, and race. (2023) The thing is is, like, well, I don’t know how they’re treating their patients. I don’t know what they’re doing to their patients. But the thing is, is patients that can sense… You know what I mean? It’s that intangible feeling of, like,
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss bias, race, and racism. (2023) It’s really tough because I know, colloquially, how some people feel about minorities or about especially. . .There’s been a lot of discussion about different LGBT groups, and especially trans folks. I’ve heard some negative comments from peers before.
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss social determinants of health, treatment costs, and bias. (2023) There’s this article on the American Dental Association [website], just I think dental students did it. It was about how in the U.S. here, if someone is on Medicaid or something, in a minority group, why would they feel reluctant to go
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss managing patient expectations, and bias. (2023) When you rotate through admissions, and I even found myself starting to almost become more biased toward extraction by the end because your first couple of days, you’re like, “Okay. If you want to save this tooth that’s hurting: root, root canal, crown, whatever,” and
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